Rotten Poetry Anthology E-Book Assignment - For Students

You've had a horrible day or a perplexing thought or a car accident or a love affair gone bad and you want to record it for all time. You want to organize those emotions that are pounding through your veins. You have something to communicate via a poem but you don’t know where to start. This, of course, is the problem with poetry. Most people find it difficult to write a poem so they don’t even try. What’s worse, they don’t bother reading any poems either. Poetry has become an almost totally foreign art form to many of us. Fortunately, there is a solution for this problem, as there are for all imponderables. The answer is to make it easy for everyone to write at least one poem in his or her life. (Adapted from Richard Howey) Using the Rotten Poetry Cookbook, you are going to write at least 5 ROTTEN poems. All you have to do is follow the horribly putrid recipes and when you are done you will have 5 half-baked, fully-rotten poems on your hands. Yes … you read the above correctly: YOUR goal is to write 5 ROTTEN poems. The worse the better–-in fact, the rubric demands that your poems be bad, so bad that they actually repel your reader! Read the rubric if you don’t believe me! No, really, read the rubric! Not only are you going to write 5 ROTTEN poems, you are going to create your own rotten poetry anthology e-book! Work this horrible must be shared! To begin, follow the first recipe below: 1. Read the Rotten Poetry Cookbook – it’s an e-book. Inside you will find at least 11 different recipes for rotten poems. Choose 5 different recipes. Here’s the link: RPC. 2. 2 of the 5 rotten poems must be 10 lines or more. Peruse this chart to see which types of poems are 5 lines or less and which ones are 10 lines or more:

Rotten Poems 5 Lines or Less (x3)

Rotten Poems 10 Lines or more (x2)

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3. Use the Rotten Poetry Cookbook as a guide. It will help you cook up your putrid poems! Follow the recipes. Help links and exemplars are also available!

4. Once your poems are written, you will publish them in the form of an e-book. We will be using “Mixbook” to create our e-books. Even though your poems are horrible they will be beautifully presented! Your published book must include the following:

5 ROTTEN poems – and each one must be different.

2 must be 10 Lines or more.

Each poem should be “illustrated” in some way. Mixbook allows you to upload your own images. It also has “stickers” that you may use to add “colour” to your work. If you would like to draw your own illustrations we can take a picture of your work and upload it.

The images should reflect the poem’s content – no matter how horribly written it is!

Your e-book (Rotten Poetry Anthology) should have a cover which includes a title for your anthology, your name and class.

ALL poems must be rotten but school appropriate. Follow the AUP guidelines—no inappropriate language or images are permitted!